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Re: Creole languages

Hello, if you have carefully read all of my contributions on the talk pages, then you will have noticed that my initial comments emphasize the mechanical concerns of articles, call attention to useless comments, and occasionally responsed to hypersensitive people who take critiques too personally; your characterization is distorted. Since you self-identify as an expert, then I will take the time to explain my misgivings, such as: (1) The etymology of "creole." It is derived from the Spanish and Portuguese "criado," or (literally "raised"), indicating a dependent of an affluent household (socially considered "minors"), suggesting the lower social status of those born in the Americas, because it was argued that the American climates negatively affected the physical and intellectual condition of those born there (yes it sounds irrational). The term "creole" applied to ALL American-born non-natives, including Africans until the nineteenth century, so the European-creole elision is retroactive essentialism. (2) Under "Recognition and renaissance," what are the sources of your assertion? (3) Same question for the first paragraph of the section "Substrate and superstrate"---for those of us who are unfamiliar with these terms (such as I), it would be helpful to more clearly explain these terms, and since it ISN'T common knowledge, then citations are needed. (4) The first paragraph of the section "Shared features" is inconsistent in its citations; the first sentence contains weasel words and needs to be substantiated. (5) The section "Gradualist and developmental hypotheses" is also inconsistent in its citations.

I stand by my tag requesting more verification and sources, and will re-insert it. The citations that are given are fine, but again, since you self-identify as an expert, I would suggest that you keep in mind the (inexpert) general audience that would appreciate more careful citations and brief, cogent definitions of the specialized vocabulary. In the future, I will enter suggestions in the talk page before I insert tags. Kemet 14:48, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

My reply here. Novalis69 01:00, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Altaic languages

Could you source the claim that most linguistics accept the inclusion of Japanese and Korean. To the best of my knowledge, most linguists reject it, not accept it. JdeJ 14:04, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Look at just any textbook right now on the market and you will see that the Altaic hypothesis has become totally uncontroversal. Novalisla69 19:22, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User Kemet

I must say that your attempt at administration against User:Kemet is in poor form. It is much more appropriate (and friendlier by the way) to address editors on their behavior to help them correct it themselves. Part of WP:AGF is assuming that editors acting improperly are doing so out of ignorance rather than willful malice. Æµ§œš¹ _{[aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi]} 17:12, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He's been at this since November 2004 and I don't see any signs of him changing his ways or correcting anything. On the contrary, he just reverted without commenting or explaining my change on the Charles Hamilton Houston article where I had restored this man's ethnicity, based on fact and prior editorial consensus, back to African American. He cannot decide just on his own, without any consensus on this matter, to change all African American to Americans.

I stand by my request for sanction. Novalis69 19:11, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What about his behavior contradicts what I just said? If you believe that his behavior is inappropriate then go on his talk page and say so, even point to the proper guideline and policy pages. Then you give him a chance to correct his behavior. Æµ§œš¹ _{[aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi]} 20:58, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's what I did. Didn't I accommodate him, even helped him reformulating his things? If I hadn't discovered what he has been doing all over the place for the last 2 1/2 years, I would have let it go at that. Did you read his reply on the incidents page? He has been a bad boy in the past, long time ago, now he has changed. He is going to be good. They all say that. People like that never change, they are like alcoholics, they can't stop doing this. Anyway, it's too late now.

You might also want to look at Tenisland's brief droppping by.

Modern Creole Theory

Hi,

I was just reading the "creole language" page and saw that you were involved in correcting and adding a lot of information to the page back in 2007. I left a question in the talk page, but I wanted to make sure that it came to your attention. I recently got my BA in Linguistics, and everything I ever read or heard showed a distinction between "Language," "creole," and "pidgin." While this might just seem like a small terminology issue, it seems like naming the article "creole language" is denying this linguistic distinction. But maybe I'm just misremembering things. In any case, I would like to direct your attention to the talk page of Creole language. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dantiston (talk • contribs) 04:56, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hola compadre, I had just written the first line of this article and wanted to see what it looked like. Best, Novalis69 (talk) 17:14, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tunisian Arabic

Dear User,

As you are one of the contributors to Tunisian Arabic. You are kindly asked to review the part about Domains of Use and adjust it directly or through comments in the talk page of Tunisian Arabic.

Yours Sincerely,

--Csisc (talk) 12:40, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Are this account and Eklir WP:SOCKs? Bon courage (talk) 16:25, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Eklir. Thanks. Bon courage (talk) 16:44, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

And I submitted Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Novalis69, as that seemed to be the older account. The reports need to be combined. Donald Albury 17:00, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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